12 volt question?

you missed the tongue in Cheek
- follow a few 12 V threads on this and other forums and you always end up with a big crap fight with people trying to overcomplicate the (basically) simple issue

........too much technical information :-))

Mainey . . .

Yeah, didn't see the tongue. But if the post heading doesn't interest me i don't read it.
Cheers Krakka

Yes - too much technical information. That is because some people do not listen to those who have been in the industry and have studied the subject deeply. We then have to try to explain why things happen and you people will not accept simple explanations.

PeterD

The technical info is completly irrelavant as per my post
If your battery went flat you were either drawng to much out of it to start the vehicle or the bttery was stuffed
both eventualitys are covered in the A-Z

Night shift but I fly out this morning and after midnight my croshift takes over i cant go back to my room because my B2B is in on DS
so nothing better to do than try and stir up a 12 volt fight - Nothing is easier

Won't go into details why I'm up but have a safe 12v flight.

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OK, I'll bite.

What do you mean by "flat"?

0v? 8v? 9v? 11v?

or maybe 0% charged, 40% charged, or 50% charged?

Its all there in my 12 V A-Z
if its flat it wont start your 4by - how many volts its got is irrelevent

In that case your A-Z is wrong.

Nope definitly not Ive had heeeeps of flat batterys and not one has started the engine

OK, can I have a go too :o0

Lets see.

I have had flat batteries in a car with an alternator where I have push started the car, and I have had flat batteries in the same car where it won't even push start. Something about not even enough voltage at the alternator to generate a field so the alternator will out put a charge to keep the coil going for the ignition system?
So the first time the battery was flat, where as the 2nd time the battery was dead flat?
Of course warming up the battery to get a bit more voltage won't work either?

Now with the old beetle with a generator, never a problem. But then, the 12v battery really starts it well since it is a 6v system, whereas the 6v battery fully charged in the beetle with a 12v system doesn't do much!

Sorry, just had to have a go.

OP
you got some of it
You had to push start it coz the battery was flat this was a result of taking out more than was replaced to a level wher you had a flat battery.
In scenario 2 you tookm all the charge out and got a dead flat
as for the VW this is precsily the issue im talking about
V dub starts= no worries
V dub doesnt start = flat battery

Na! don't want one of them, when they kick back it hurts.

love this one -----my first car a 1927 morris cowley was magneto ignition --at least i didn't have a battery problem with starting when the battery was flat ---but i broke a thumb when it backfired when i was cranking once

Well...............what was the picture like.

Lionel,
it probably was 'normal' tv, not LCD or PLASMA screen :-)

Mainey . . .